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Sheila has written “Searching for Bessie” - a book about her family's journey through very different events and emotions.  She also includes some recipes and prose and poetry.    This is a good read for anyone!   It tells the story of Sheila’s grandmother, Bessie Emma Reason, one of five daughters, and who brings shame on the family by having an illegitimate child just after the First World War.  Sadly a few months later Bessie dies in a cycling accident leaving her small daughter to be brought up by the family.   Sheila recalls family history with a continuing description of life by the River Stour many years ago.